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>I concur Jim, it's a big Bill Laswell thing going on with the tala >matrix, what a collection of >>>drummers!! The contemporary asian and fusion scene is great, get your ears around some bhangra, www.dholfoundation.com or try the afrocelts www.afrocelts.com . >Check out the master musicians of jajouka, Talvin did some work there >too. There are certainly loops used in all the stuff we talk about but I don't know how much is looping? A lot will be samples I'm sure just starting to scratch the surface of this stuff. thanks. if nothing else, this thread is going to give me a bunch of new stuff to check out. have you checked out laswells loops for acid? pretty cool stuff. >I was an investigative child and made my first tape loop at about age 10 you got me beat. but my first loop was made by bouncing from cassette tapes decks (the kind you grandpa had where the tape went in on top, mechanical transport control "buttons", etc) i just kept pausing on the down beat on the record deck and played the play deck til it hit the phrase again then unpaused. pause. rewind. repeat. i actually did a performance with the loops all recorded this way, and played back on one of the same crappy cassette decks into a guitar amp. ah, the crazy stories... of course it wasn't LiveLooping(tm)! >I offer pendulum as a contender if it satisfies the looping tag. clearly it does. and is also now on my list of albums to pick up. all this "is it looping" stuff reminds me of the surrealist meetings where they were primarily concerned with who was in...